Sunday, May 31, 2009

I may have actually fallen off the planet.

Wow, that was a long lull in posting. I should be ashamed. So I come to you bearing gifts to ask for mercy.

Down Home Girl

My first byhand.me spotlight, and I think I'll be utilizing this tool more often for some themed sharing posts.

Music is like air for me. When I don't listen to music for a while, my internal deejay starts playing songs I hate, apparently in an effort to make me listen to something, anything, to cleanse my brain. I frequently get on band-centric kicks, and right now my listening consists almost entirely of music from Old Crow Medicine Show and the Felice Brothers. Both bands draw heavily from American roots music and inject it with their own amazing energy.

I think of myself as a city girl who grew up on a farm, and my mother was born and raised in the South, so OCMS and the Felice Brothers build a comfortable bridge between my past and my present. This spotlight was inspired by OCMS and takes elements from their songs "Wagon Wheel" and "Down Home Girl". (I posit the theory that Ketch Secor is the sexiest man to ever wield a fiddle.)

If you've never heard of the Felice Brothers, I enthusiastically encourage you to check out this YouTube playlist I made of some of the best examples of their work.

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The Marlowe Co. is a craft/maker semi-collective that is just getting started. Made up of me, Kali Nichta, my dear friend Mungo (visitmakersfield.com) and our co-spawn the Monkeyboi, we are a bi-coastal operation with me in the east, Mungo in the west, and the Monkey swinging back and forth between from time to time.
This venture came about as an answer to the question of how to make ends meet and how to flex the creativity I don't get to exercise in my 9-to-5 (does anyone really work from 9 to 5?). Now my ideas are flowing, and I am excited about the direction I hope to take this little shop.